skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotify has such a terrible app, at least on iOS. If you download a song and have a weak cellular/WiFi connection the app prefers the connection over the downloaded song, so you just can't listen to music unless you turn on offline mode.

Similarly, if you have a weak connection and go back a song that song isn't cached which is infuriating.

This mostly happened when I was getting into my car which is barely in WiFi range but the connection wasn't stable enough to be usable, so I'd have to start driving before I could interact with Spotify.

Anyway, I switched to Apple Music a year or two ago. Spotify is trying to lock users in with the social aspect (e.g. Spotify Wrapped) but it's just not worth it.
Google in 2000s was excellent. Modern Google makes me feel like I’m a product being sold a lemon at a barb wire fenced used car lot. It’s horrible, the things being shown are horrible, and there’s questionable ethics and value to be had by even going there.
Mad Max, obviously, Night of the Comet, The Quiet Earth, A boy and his dog. I think the early 80s was a good time for the genre.

Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, and that other Charleton Heston movie with zombies that I can’t remember (not a huge fan of zombies)

The Road is a fairly recent movie that fits.

British TV had Space 1999, lots of early Doctor Who and an attempt at the Tripods series by John Christopher. By far my favorite was “Survivors” written by Terry Nation - who needs zombies when you’ve got actual problems to deal with!
All air missiles explode near the target.
A cultural change can have lots of impact. Shutting down such a program means eliminating wasteful positions that impose those illegal processes on others, among other things. But I’m not asking to ban DEI as much as ban the equity part.
likewise. We have a signal group chat that we've slowly been adding new friends to. It's a fantastic way to stay in touch
It's funny that you hold up ice cream as a paradigmatically unhealthy food, when most of the studies point in the opposite direction: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...

The state of nutrition science is so bad that I wouldn't believe most any study, though.
I felt the same way, hesitating to use a hardware RT music platform that is scripted in lua because "omg another lang", but I couldn't find an alternative. I bit the bullet and ... man it really is easy to use, forgiving and absurdly productive. You should reconsider, because learning lua is so easy, with so many resources out there for any question ... and then you know a "real" language and not just some OBS tech.
well, manual application is also a thing, there are people who literally make it their job to apply to job listings. you can find people offering their services on r/slavelabour. some times they take a flat rate/job application, sometimes they do percentage of your first paycheck on new job.

https://www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/search/?q=job+applicati...
The answers come from the same websites. They just get stripped of their traffic. As someone who puts a ton of work into writing accurate, helpful guides, it's devastating to have my work plundered like that.

Once these monopolies have successfully established themselves, they will become indistinguishable from the ad-invested websites they replace. The only difference is that they will create no new information of their own, and they will destroy the indieweb that once provided it.
That's false. Browser vendors implemented XHTML so the Web wasn't a broken mess. You can't force developers to write perfect markup. XHTML had lots of undefined behavior and bad failure modes. Implementing XHTML "properly" meant breaking the web, but that's not what the W3C cared about, they cared about standards for standards sake.

Let me be clear: XHTML didn't materially benefit anyone at all except the people who were putting their names on a standard. HTML 5 actually fixed real problems. It made parsing HTML sensible and exhaustively defined. It added open features that companies like Macromedia, Apple, Real, Sun, and Microsoft had a monopoly on for a decade prior. Unlike the W3C, the WHATWG made actual, real life people's lives meaningfully better.

Moreover, most of the things Google is pushing for aren't HTML. Protected Audiences—the ad targeting API Google wants—is sitting in front of the W3C folks as part of the WICG.
You might like https://cider.sh/
Just sharing an anecdote:

I was searching for a quote that I'd heard in an audiobook the other day. I just had the general paraphrase, and didn't feel like scanning through the chapters to go find it. This was a somewhat obscure source.

Google had just straight garbage for me. The quote was political in nature, and I felt like the results were fighting general tone-policing filters and were tuned for recent events.

o1 on the other hand, found the author of the quote, summarized the general idea of what i might be searching for and then cited potential sources.

It's just patently obvious to me that google has failed in delivering the core value prop of their product, they're begging to be replaced.
american housing is optimized for investment, not living
Quadruple property taxes on any residential property that is not an active primary residence.
> A study of YouTube videos in 2022 found that more than 15% of "videos" (i.e. billions of videos) contained only still images

Talking heads are equivalent to (badly written) text only content too.
What a terrible article. Published by staff aka ai. Nearly unusable on mobile with more ads for temu crap than actual content.
But "search" and "getting an answer to a question" are two different things, aren't they? I realize that the trend has been going this way for a long time - probably since Ask Jeeves started blurring the line - and this is indeed how a lot of people try / want to use search engines, but still... I wish that Google (and competitors) would have separate pages for something like "Ask Google" vs. traditional search (where I want to find a particular document or quality content on a certain topic instead of just getting a specific answer).

May I ask how old you are? I'm 38 and I've been trying hard to break my 10 year-old of the habit of just typing questions into search engines (or telling me to "Ask Google" whenever she asks me a question and I say, "Oh, I don't know").
The total economic damage of cutting cables can be much higher.
I personally don’t want PPIs because they scare me. Instead when I have bad heartburn, I mix a teaspoon of baking soda (the pure kind, not the kind with yeast or whatever) with water in a glass and drink it. Sometimes a second time if it’s still there after 10–20 min.

The soda reacts with the acid in the stomach, it makes you burp a little bit makes the heartburn go away. And I believe it’s a lot less harmful than PPIs.

Been managing my chronic heartburn this way for 15 years.
try using LangChain and you'll get countless examples of bad abstractions

started working with it this week for a new project

gosh, it's so painful and unintuitive... I find myself digging deep into their code multiple times a day to understand how I'm supposed to use their interfaces
If we used the word "judgement", would that be a better option?
It seems that pretty much anyone can write code (even AI), but ultimately in software development, we get paid for judgement.
In point of fact the country is -littered- with affordable housing, frequently sitting unoccupied in places people were perfectly happy to live before all of the economic opportunities in rural America were gutted. How sure are we the current crisis actually involves housing?
The few times I gave it a try it was dead wrong. The dream is nice but the execution is lacking.
Worth noting MANPADS try to get much closer than all the bigger ones because they can't carry too much shrapnel (if any).
An Airbus has also survived a missile strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Baghdad_DHL_attempted_sho...
Crazy as there’s no shortage of land to build houses on. Of course there’s also not many great jobs in the empty west or endless fields of corn and soy (coated in cancer causing chemicals no less).
If you are interested in water filters that filter out microplastics, look in to filters that have NSF ratings for it. Afaik only the berkefeld filters (NOT berkey) do. Also a lot of water filter companies are sketchy, and market their filters with terms like made from NSF rated components but do not have the actual full filter assemblies tested (red red red flag).
<leader><leader> also opens the fuzzy finder in LazyVim. I don’t like it quite as much as <shift><shift> which is the shortcut in Jetbrains but it’s better than <Cmd>-P in VS Code
Creator Economy Platform Costs
Why declaration of war is outdated?
> Does ChatGPT Search have trust? Open AI isn't monetizing its search just yet, but AI has its own issues with hallucinations.

Everywhere where SEO people congregate, they talk only about this: how to produce content that will eventually end up in training data for LLMs, so that when you ask about anything remotely connected to a given brand, its products will show up in the response.

Ads are bad enough today, but it's possible the future will be worse: product placement in everything, everywhere, all of the time.
Because _my_ computer has no battery. There is a plethora of computers out there with batteries who can run Linux, Windows, and macOS. These computers can, on paper, run Alacritty.

Cherry on top is me being a former user of a MBP 2010 who'd crash when using discrete GPU (it was _the_ reason Apple went with AMD later on). And some apps insisted on using it, even when I disabled it.

I like Rust applications but I don't like this response. The dev sounds worn out; whereas the dev of Ghostty seems to be a pleasure to deal with.
i’ll buy this. seems reasonable.
There is no cure to the endless stream of AI generated SEO-trash. As long as there is a system to game and an incentive to do so, it will be gamed.

The only solution I can dream of is to remove the incentive, aka remove advertising. I'm afraid I'll be dead long before that.
Why should we care about whether we're in a market bubble or not, especially if one does not have their own money staked in the bubble? It's somebody else's capital that's at risk, no? If they're wrong, let them reap the consequences.

(cue rebuttal based on systemic consequences / financial bailouts etc, but you know what I mean; also, the dotcom bubble deflation didn't require a bailout)
I'll grant you that Rust is not nearly as ergonomic as Ada in this domain, but doing it manually is fairly easy. Turning it into a library is a bit more complicated - these days, I'd do it with macros. Of course, making sure that the compiler knows about it for optimization purposes would require lots of const generic.
I don't know if you are trolling or not, but if not, you are an interesting person (In a good way) :-)

I too prefer a much more minimal approach to my text editor. Then what most IDEs provide, but syntax highlighting is luxurious and a must-have for me. In general, I really love colors, especially the simple colors of the terminal. Color can be distracting of course, but it is a phenomenal way to quickly differentiate between related and unrelated parts of the code.
that's how I got my new job offer!, I talked about this system I was building during a technical interview.
This is an obvious troll post, but it is interesting how an airliner kept flying in spite of taking a missile hit (or two?)

The answer is that surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles don't generally slam into their target and erupt into a big flamey explosion.

Instead, they are more like shotgun shells that explode near their target. Moving targets are hard to hit (especially e.g. a fighter plane attempting to evade) so this gives them a greater chance to damage their target.

It's also not generally necessary to blow a target to smithereens. Planes are fragile and insanely complicated. Militarily, damaging one is as good as destroying it. Even if it remains airborne that plane is going to have to leave the fight and even if it makes it back to base it's not going to be flying again for a long time, if ever.

So it's not too surprising that an airliner stayed aloft for a time after a missile hit. It would not have been blown to bits, and it has at least two engines. A single missile, exploding nearby, could leave at least one engine and some/most control surfaces functional.

(Of course, often a missile strike is fatal to an airliner, as we have also unfortunately seen throughout history)
~11 million illegal crossings since 2020, more than the combined populations of several states.
Is that your typical search engine use case or are you more likely trying to find out when the taco stand opens?
If you're looking at Spotify's profit to redistribute, you're looking at the wrong places. The right places would be the payola agreements worth billions they already have in place with the major labels, and the fact that they explicitly allow bot plays to prop up the profits of said labels. Starting in January, they won't even tally royalties for songs that get less than 1000 streams- which means most of their catalog. They will just take the money, and consumers are ok with it because less than a thousand people per artist will care. But hey, it's convenient.
On the other hand you can go from concept to finished product with a bangladeshi team today. And you can’t do that with copilot. So why the risk for western devs when you can already get close enough to their quality of work for a fraction of the price, yet they still exist? Clearly there are other factors involved beyond raw cost to explain this.
Both of your requirements for correctness are just 50% too high.
Likely a chunk of that is in cities or places in the countryside that have seen depopulation
We cant even have affordable healthcare. Affordable housing is a pipe dream.
we have a decent amount of housing that sits vacant, lots of houses eventually go derelict...
Extracting Written Content from Podcasts and Livestreams
Seems pretty excellent for an old jalopy.
In 2000s we were freeloading on the investors expense, in 2020's investors are recouping their investments.

Also, most of the content was either stolen(divx, mp3 etc) or created without of expectation of immediate reward(mostly passion projects).

Oh and btw, Google didn't got infested after LLMs proliferation. Google results were useless way before that. With LLMs there's even improvement as the spam is at least mediocre content.
It's going to get worse before it gets better. The pyrrhic NIMBY victory over new housing development that might threaten the value of their investment has led to the country eating its young. It's not just homelessness, it's a crashing birth rate because young couples are making the decisions they're guided into by the market: not starting families.

Build mixed income public housing, Singapore style. Resurrect the Federal Works Agency and restore the powers of the Army Corps of Engineers to file eminent domain paperwork in the morning and roll bulldozers after lunch.
I participate in local politics, it's not just housing. Housing means more people which means more infrastructure, schools, fire, police, roads and so forth. All of that costs money and immigrants/asylum seekers tend to be at bottom of economic scale which means any taxes they pay are extremely likely not to cover their share of cost. This is why many communities are against it and it's massively impacting local services the community provides. In particular, we got influx of asylum seekers and schools had to made massive cuts to many programs because budget was being poured into education programs for the asylum seeker kids and support services for their parents. This is required by law. This is why my county went for Trump in a way it hadn't seen since Bush.

Before you go posting links about Social Security and Federal Taxes, it doesn't matter to local governments, they don't see that money. Also worth noting, Local Governments don't work like Federal Government, any debt they take on must be repaid on time or go bankrupt which is not good.
and most tech companies are making it clear they want your butt in a seat. I'm not saying full-remote jobs are a single cure for it, but it definitely moves the needle in the right direction, as well as reduces CO2 emissions.
You can just make things
Like in all such discussions: the problem isn't with what you write, but with what you read. There are tons of Ada code that's already written like that. So, future changes to the style guide aren't going to do much. Also, nobody's changing that anyways.
> It does not mention the opioid crisis.

Places like West Virginia have way less homelessness than places with high housing costs like the west coast.

Homelessness is a housing problem. Drugs make it worse, but are not the primary cause.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...
My wife is a researcher that has looked in to human breast milk, and blood metabolites. She has colleagues who have looked in to similar things. They all avoid plastics as much as possible.
We absolutely can afford health care, we spend more than twice anyone else, we merely structure our healthcare to be unaffordable.
I’m not sure why this has no comments but I liked the article.
Its not a strawman. Having a conversation can also distract you. Being elderly can be a risk. Being tired can be a huge risk. Yet none of these things are illegal. I could have just as easily used one of these examples instead of drunk driving and my point would stand against your criticism.

Fact is, humans in general are imperfect operators. The ai driver only has to be an alright driver, not a perfect one, to route around the long tail of drivers that cause most all the fatalities.
Drug addiction has always been an excuse not to do anything about this. Many people think drug addiction causes homelessness and not the other way around, despite evidence.
Lack of affordable housing or depressed wages?

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...
Hate to be macabre, but with 70k+ deaths _per year_ by opiates in the US, it probably helps decrease the demand for housing :(
Traditionally. Newer interceptors like PAC-3 are designed for hit-to-kill, using the kinetic energy of the interceptor itself to hit and destroy the target directly. The downside is you need more advanced sensors to get the required guidance accuracy, the upside is less "dead weight" for a warhead.
>I strongly believe that a smart-phone should not be a requirement to partake in society.

I'm 40; I stopped using email in 2016 (save temp-burners for a few necessary signups); essentially never do I carry a cellular phone, nor do I app/text.

My bank treats me like a criminal, locking me out of online banking; occassionally they cancel my debit card ("didn't you see our app notification?!"). Jokes on them, though: I live one block away from this bank, so I just walk in constantly to ask them for account balances/transactions, and to poke fun at their ideas of security (e.g. text 2FA, which login.gov specifically declares "bad practice").

It's actually kind of nice, having built rapore with a few of the tellers who already know why I'm visiting their location so often: bad company policies, dependant upon smartphone apps.

Should physical identification ever be legislated out of existance, I'd probably just expatriate (at this point, semi-retired).
From a previous comment:

> Here is there selection criterion and justification:
“occupations involving extensive day-to-day navigation, with often unpredictable, real time navigational demands.”

> All subjects died between Jan 1 2020 (COVID) to Dec 31, 2022.

> There was no data on duration between active employment in listed employment categories and age of death.

This study is a formalization of existing outlier data, that many people associate with Alz resistance. This is basically anecdata.
Yes, they very much are two different things.

I loath products like Facebook, Messenger, Google Photos, etc. are turning their traditional "search" page/feature into a one-stop AI slop shop.

All I want to do is find a specific photo album by name.
Where are you publishing your guides? Would love to add another bookmark to my collection.
I'm happy to pay for ChatGPT, and I would happily pay for a clean Google search experience without ads. How much are they making per visitor a month?
99% sure that it's caused by lack of housing. Housing in places people don't want to live in anymore whether due to job availability or etc isn't that useful. Although possibly improving transportation to places with lots of job opportunities might partially reverse that
A few months back, the author of "Homelessness is a Housing Problem" gave a talk where I live and it's quite worth watching if you don't have time to read the book:

https://youtu.be/W4rBe1fGPZU?si=xV2Ai789WXZ548nG&t=442 (linked to where he's about to start talking to skip all the intros and thanks and so on)

There's this article, also, with the main points: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...

We need to build a lot more housing - of all shapes and sizes - in the places where people want to live.
> mixed income public housing

Maybe its just my country and the way we do things but these words dont make sense in this order. What do you mean by public housing?
Lost Lessons from 8-Bit Basic
> Very flawed study.

Without a doubt. Borderline useless.
Yes, but also we need some more direct incentive for new construction. Real estate as investment property at least used to drive supply. We need massive (tax/interest rate/zoning) incentives for high density construction, both in cities and towns/suburbs. Disincentivizing empty investment properties is the cheapest way for the government, but I think carrot and stick works best.
> …i found that it’s impossible to navigate apple music or spotify if you like listening to albums

I can't speak to Spotify, but listening to albums in Apple Music couldn't be more straightforward — (1) choose album, (2) play.

Roon's apps give "generic music player". What about it specifically allows you to play albums successfully, where Spotify and Apple Music trip you up?
Mississippi has a low homeless rate for a reason. It isn’t just about absolute housing availability, but housing in areas where people want to or have to live. People also either die or leave if they can’t survive there, you simply can’t exist at all on the margin.
my wednesday morning train is at 0654 and i arrive by bike between 0650 and 00652.
The disconnect you have with me (your customer) is that I don’t want or need a “tech enabled service”.

I just want the service.

Sometimes being a Pilot customer feels like I’m being experimented on. Instead of humans reliably doing our books, now I need to hire a fractional CFO (which you conveniently also provide) to double check your work.

We find errors in our Pilot books at a staggering rate. Things that would never be missed if we just had a human bookkeeper.

The value prop for a “tech enabled service” from a customers perspective is non-existent. It’s not cheaper for the customer (I pay you over $25k/yr for doing very little), the quality isn’t any better, and as we see with Bench (who also raised $100 million) there’s incredible risk in relying on it as a business critical service.

Anyone reading this, just please go hire a human bookkeeper. Don’t believe the marketing spin pitched by these tech enabled services companies.
Search for anything with Google that has high ad monetization potential. You will find that Google turns off the AI overview.
Why ascribe to malice, what can be explained by ineptitude?

I just don't think Google cares enough about the web as a whole to make strategic decisions for content quality in aggregate.

Sure it cares about geeky nuances and standards (e.g. page structure / load times), but Pichai isn't considering the impact on web content quality when debating an algorithm change or feature.

If Google continues driving web quality off the cliff? Well, the business KPIs stayed green.